OptiTrack Motive Tracker Motion Capture Software

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Engineered to track objects in 6DoF with exacting precision—with support for real-time and offline workflows—OptiTrack Motive Tracker is designed to meet the needs of the most demanding engineering and research applications.

In Depth

Powerful rigid body solving

The most precise 6DoF data imaginable is at your fingertips with OptiTrack Motive: Tracker’s industry-leading 3D reconstruction and rigid body solving. Use high-level tracking filters and constraints to fine tune the performance of your object tracking—perfect for demanding applications like high object count and high speed UAV tracking.

64-bit, multi-threaded architecture

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker was designed from the ground-up to leverage the native power of the latest Windows 64-bit OS and Intel/AMD 64-bit processors, enabling tracking of more tracked objects, longer recordings, larger file sizes, and support for hundreds of cameras per system.

Setup is easy

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker reduces system setup time by up to 75%. Aim Assist, auto-masking, one-click rigid body creation, versatile hardware and the industry’s longest range cameras make even large systems easy to setup with just one person.

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Flexible real-time streaming options

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker supports industry standard streaming engines like VRPN and Trackd alongside custom network interface development via our free NatNet SDK.

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Open SDKs & API access

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker’s flexible architecture and free dev tools create the world’s first truly open optical tracking platform, offering access data at any stage in the pipeline—2D camera images, marker centroid data, unlabeled 3D points, labeled markers, and rigid bodies. You can even replace the Motive:Tracker UI completely and directly control system operation in your application with our Motive API.

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Recording and data management

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker’s new asset and data management systems will automatically assign rigid bodies and custom markersets to the recordings they were tracked in as file metadata—all of which is contained within a single project folder for simple management during complex trials.

External sync in/out

Integrate your OptiTrack system with other devices and large scale tracking and analytical ecosystems with external sync in/out for slave and triggering events. Utilize either frame triggers or free-run triggering to synchronize frame cycling with external software controls and hardware components like shutter glasses.

Data editing with manual labelling with custom markersets

In addition to standard optical editing tools like gap filling, track swapping, and more, OptiTrack Motive:Tracker enables the creation of custom markersets to manually label trajectories for tracking small, non-rigid marker clusters.”

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System health monitoring with indicators

OptiTrack Motive: Tracker’s extensive health system monitors real-time performance throughout your pipeline, from camera operation to the quality of your recordings. Prime Series camera users will enjoy native integration of the camera status indicator ring, which provides real-time indication of every camera in the system’s activity and health.

Sync’d reference video with 3D overlay

Drop any tracking camera into the video reference group in the camera manager and transform it into a full-frame, calibrated, synchronized reference camera with support for 3D data overlay.

Features & Specs

Tracking, solving, and labelling

Track up to 2,000 markers with the industry’s most precise 3D reconstruction
Manual trajectory labelling for non-rigid groups of markers
One-click rigid body creation
Customizable rigid body solver parameters, including:
- Deflection and flexibility
- Dynamic and static constraints
- Marker sharing
- Kalman smoothing
System health monitoring and event logging ensure that every stage in the workflow operates optimally and potential problems easily are identified if issues arise
Multi-camera Rigid Body tracking
3 marker minimum per Rigid Body for 6DoF
7 marker maximum per Rigid Body
Max Rigid Bodies: 32
Redundant Rigid Body marker hand-off

Camera control and frame sync

Camera manager with drag-and-drop migration between camera groups
Synchronization control, including frame delivery and shutter offset
Setting presets for quickly tuning cameras to specific uses
- Tracking
- Scene video reference
- Aiming
- Custom
Complete control of camera settings
- Frame rate
- Exposure
- Threshold
- Illumination (strobed or continuous)
- Gain
- Filter Switcher
Full-frame, synchronized, calibrated reference video with 3D overlay for compatible cameras
Aim Assist integration for compatible cameras
Auto-masking of all 2D camera views with a single click
Pixel inspection tool for measuring pixel brightness anywhere on any camera
Back-projection of 3D marker data onto source 2D camera images
Detailed camera activity and health indicators overlaid on 2D camera views

External integration

SMPTE Time Code support for recorded and streamed data (via eSync)
Flexible real-time streaming:
- Free MotionBuilder plugin (7.5, 2009-2013)
- IKinema Action for Maya (2009-2013)
- VRPN
- Trackd
- OptiTrack’s custom NatNet SDK
Bypass the Motive UI and integrate tracking directly into your applications using the Motive API
External sync in/out:
- Genlock (via eSync)
- General purpose sync in/out (via eSync or OptiHub)
- Broadcast simple XML UDP packet for start/stop record for triggering remote devices
- Compatibility with 3D Shutter Glasses (via eSync or OptiHub)

Calibration

Automatic lens detection, with support for custom lenses
Support for standard OptiTrack wands and custom wand sizes
Calibrate multiple camera groups with unique settings
3D capture volume visualization based on the desired number of overlapping cameras
Perform new, full calibrations or refinements of existing calibrations
Utilize volume visualizations and measurement tools to assess system health and tracking accuracy

Data management & post

New data management system:
- Drag-and-drop asset management
- Paste in shot lists from clipboard
- New integrated Take files include 2D, 3D, and skeletal data, with optional 2D data archiving
- Detailed file metadata for each take, including assets and health indicators
Optional offline trajectorization:
- Improved solves for complex, high-density reconstructed 3D points
- Re-trajectorization with new camera or subject calibrations
New data scrubber:
- Take health indicators reveal gaps in data
- Channel view for X, Y, Z editing
- Tracks view for quickly identifying and re-labelling or merging mislabelled and unidentified trajectories
Trajectory editing tools
- Fix swapped trajectories
- Fill gaps manually or automatically
- Move trajectories up/down
- Smoothing, with customizable filter cutoff frequency
- Manual labelling, including support for custom markersets
Solve to skeletal data in Motive, or export opticals for external solving
Export formats:
- C3D for optical data
- FBX for optical, rigid body, and skeletal data
- BVH for rigid body and skeletal data
- CSV for optical and rigid body data

Camera Support

Up to 24 USB Cameras
Up to 96+ Ethernet cameras
Synchronized scene video reference
Multi-Camera calibration

System Requirements

Recommended system requirements can vary significantly based on camera model and count. Please visit the system builder tool to find system recommendations tailored to your specific setup.